True but it doesn't sound like their loss, If anything it is their gain (obviously lowes etc... pays them to give those coupons out).

Depends on the family member. Some people I know of are major creatures of habit. I do computer repair for a living, I had one family I removed a ton of virus's for, installed firefox, added adblock and web of trust, explained to them that one of the gaming pages they regularly visited had a horrible rating for…

It is probably more related to the licensing and legal risks of open source. Don't get me wrong I love open source, unfortunately it makes media providers and content producers cringe in fear (one of the reasons netflix can't seem to get a player put out for linux). Honeycomb is the one android variant that they…

One other thing, I don't really see a reason to upgrade. Assuming all the kinks and quirks are fixed, I have yet to see a feature in windows 8 that really merits any extra effort or money to switch, so far in the list of "improvements" I've seen, an interface that is more suitable for touch screens, you will most…

That nobody except grad school was going to give a crap about what my GPA was (and I've never planned or wanted to go to grad school).

I really need to refresh my work wardrobe. It's a bit more formal here than my last office, and I wasn't quite prepared for that. It's become painfully obvious that I really only have two outfits for work and the permutations that exist between them.

Doesn't the Google Voice plugin do this already? Provided your GV number is your main (which mine is.)

If we go back to the beginning of the year, I had only two, my desktop and my laptop. But then work gave me a laptop, and Google sent me the Cr-48 bringing me up to four.

We hae a winner in Kingdom of Zeal. Just in time for me to replay through Chrono Trigger.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their tips in last week's open thread on my presentation. It was actually a pretty informal setting. It was a group of about 20 or so teachers who I had to give a talk to about my industry to possibly give them ideas for their classes. I think I did as well as I could given how much…

I created an Arch partition a few weeks back after using Ubuntu for a while and wanting to learn a bit more. Following the setup on the Wiki and here on Lifehacker, I got up and running pretty quickly. It definitely was a learning process, getting used to using the command line for everything, but I caught on fairly…

Tomorrow morning I have to give a presentation at a conference in place of my boss. It's been probably a few years since I've given a formal presentation, and I've never done one this long before (needs to be 60 minutes long, with 20 minute Q&A).

I wouldn't want to completely decry this without trying it first, but Chrome basically is a giant URL bar when you boil it down and that's why I like it. I have a hard time seeing the browser without it.

I see a lot of cool DIY projects like this on Lifehacker, but I wish there was a guide or something for those of us who didn't take wood shop in high school. When I see terms like "mitre," the only thing I think of is the hat a bishop wears.

Not a bad idea, although I wouldn't want to use fancy expensive salt for things like boiling a pot of pasta.

I've held off on rooting my plain Droid for a long time now, mainly because I was really nervous if something went wrong, I don't have the money to replace it with another smart phone right now. but now that the phone is more than a year old and not running as smoothly and rumored not to be getting a Gingerbread…

I wouldn't mind giving some a try, but the one constant, undebated nutrition message I keep hearing is Americans eat too much salt. I've been generally trying to reduce my salt usage, not increase it.

That's not the one I was having a problem with, it's the one to [lifehacker.com] that's not working.

I don't know if this is the new design or what, but the link to the eat on $1 a day article just takes me to [lifehacker.com] unless I copy and paste it.

VOTE: Seesmic Desktop